Sense & Response – Nature Drawing Workshop

As the contemporary art world witnesses an exciting revival in drawing directly from nature, come join the movement with local interdisciplinary artist Annie Kammerer Butrus as she leads a creativity workshop in this timeless practice.

The workshop will begin in the field with Butrus teaching her methods for shadow tracing and blind contour drawing. These exercises focus on the physicality of light as well as intentional studying. While the workshop will include technical guidance, no technical ability or proficiency is required. The final goal? For each artist to leave with a greater confidence in their ability to visually capture their unique reactions to the natural world.

Each workshop participant will be provided with a small wire-bound sketchbook, pencil, and a Sakura micron pen that they can keep for their own practice.

Annie Kammerer Butrus (b. Evanston, Illinois) is an award-winning artist with an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. from Wellesley College, where she studied architecture, landscape architecture and studio art. She exhibits her work in major cities, galleries and academic institutions. Realized primarily through painting, Butrus’ artistic practice focuses on the intersection of science, landscape, and memory. Her interest lies in how mapping shapes our idea of place and belonging, how to document change and time, and how often the source of our interaction with nature is from the inside looking out. Her process employs many series of latex resist and layers of opaque and translucent acrylic paint, applied in succession to create lines and boundaries. Labor intensive, the resist application records the act of painting, allows complete control of the painted surface and then, once removed, transforms the painting over and over, creating positive and negative voids.